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From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the

Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great

explorer.

Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in

search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in

the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus

made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each

designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter

of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These

later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous,

but they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled

brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all

these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion,

however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first

voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages

illustrate the tragic costs- political, moral, and economic.

In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these

adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's

celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants'

vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be

embraced by readers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco

Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon

Winchester, and Tony Horwitz.

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Laurence Bergreen is the prizewinning author of

eight previous works of nonfiction, including Marco Polo, Over

the Edge of the World, Voyage to Mars, and Capone. His

writings have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times,

The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and

Esquire. He lives in New York City.

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